It's Been A Long Time... [Desperate Measures Sequel]

FortySix.

Roman was so gentle with me, he grabbed a tea towel dampening it giving it to me to hold on my mouth before he retrieved the first aid kit from the cupboard. "This is not how I thought I would end my Thanksgiving," I laughed as I held the towel to my lip. 

He came closer and held the towel on my mouth so I couldn't speak. "You have to just be quiet, it doesn't look very nice." He left the towel in my charge as he opened the box of goods and started to rummage through it. "You must have hit it on the sharp part, I've been telling him to get that looked at."

Seth and Frankie walked into the kitchen, "I thought there was some shouting happening." Seth said as he looked at me with wide eyes. "What the fuck happened?" He rushed to me and held my face moving the tea towel and gasping at whatever he saw. 

I quickly put the towel back to my lip before Frankie spoke, "What happened?"

"Did-"

"It was an accident," I mumbled through the towel as I looked up at Seth. "It was just an accident."

He shook his head before he stepped away from me, maybe he realised how close he was standing to me before he looked around. "Where is he now?"

"He's in the bathroom with Katherine," Roman told Seth before he came over and removed the towel from my face before he started to dab some liquid on my lip making me hiss at him. "It'll make the pain better."

"It doesn't hurt," I lied. It only hurt a little, nothing too much. "Please just hurry up, Seth get Dean please."

Seth and Roman exchanged a look before Roman shook his head. "Just leave it for now."

"No," I said as I looked at Roman. "It was an accident."

Roman pressed the liquid to my lips with a little more force as I saw Seth disappear out of the kitchen. I moved away from Roman's touch, moving my head back. As I turned my head I caught a glimpse of my reflection in the window. 

Reaching up I touched the massively swollen lip before wincing at my touch. I turned around and looked at Roman, "Is it bad?" I asked him slowly as I returned my hand to my side. 

He shook his head, "It's not that bad."

The door opened and in walked Dean followed by Seth. Dean headed to me and looked at my face before he kissed my forehead. "I think we're gonna need some ice for that," he told me before he headed to the freezer pulling out an ice pack which he wrapped in a tea towel and handed to me. He turned to Roman, "Thanks, we're gonna head to bed."

I felt his hand slide around my waist before we walked towards the door, I turned and nodded at everyone to say thanks before Dean escorted me up the stairs and to the bedroom. 

This whole experience was very sobering and having the two bottles of wine was almost pointless now. As soon as the bedroom door was closed, Dean turned around and looked at me. "I'm sorry about Katherine."

"It was an accident," I told him as I sat on the bed and started to take my tights off. 

He shot me a look as if to say he knew I was lying. "I know my sister Tasha."

I took my tights off completely and put them into my overnight bag, "What did you say to her?" I asked him as I looked up at him. He was taking his shirt off as I looked. 

He chucked his top into the washing bin before he walked towards me, his hands cupping my face before he knelt down to my level. "Don't worry about that now. I just need to know you are okay. What happened in there?"

Placing my hands on top of his I leaned my forehead against his and closed my eyes. "She's just looking out for you."

He let me go and turned around, his head hung low as he rubbed his hand over his face before he turned back to me. "This is all my fault," he told me as he unbuckled the belt on his jeans.